Monday caucus update: Palin slips with Iowa GOP, three book stops for Huckabee

The last day of February has news about Republican presidential prospects who have some Iowa caucus activists doubting whether they will run in 2012.

Sarah Palin at an Iowa Republican Party fundraiser in September

First, The Des Moines Register’s Iowa Poll shows former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s favorability slipping among Iowa Republicans, the very voters she would need to impress first on a 2012 presidential bid. Here’s that story.

And former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, the 2008 caucus winner, has three Iowa stops on a national book tour today. However, he is doing little on the two-day trip to suggest he is investigating a second bid for president, based on observations on his return to Davenport Sunday. See that Register story here.